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. THE ADAIR"COUNTY NEWS
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DR. J. N. MIRRELL
DENTIST
Office, Front rooms "m Jeffries BTd'g
up Stairs.
Columbia, - Kentucky
J. B. Stoke
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discount coupon No. 32.
Address,
H. O. KEELING, Pres.
Bryant & Stratum Business College
' , Louisville, Ky.
TIN WORK.
I am prepared to do any kiud of Tin
Work, Hoofing, Guttering, &c I
make Sheet Iron Stoves, Galvanized
Tanks, Sand Pumpsand any other
thing made in Tin or Sheet Iron. Call
at my shop if you need anythin6 in my
line or repair work in tinorsheetiron.
Over L. W. Bennetts's Store.
S. E. Bridgwaters,
DENTAL OFUMCEJ
Dr. James Tripletl
DENTIST
OVER PAUIX DRUG CO.
Columbia, Ky.
BBS PHONE 3D. OFFICE PHON1
WELL DRILLER
I will drill wells in Adair and
adjoining counties. See me be
fore contracting. Latest im
proved machinery of all kinds.
Pump Repairing Done. Give
me a Call.
4. C YATES
L. H. Jones
Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist
Eye Specialist
Special attention given Diseases of all
'- Domestic Animals
Office at Residence, 1 mile of town, on
Jamestown road.
ThonelUG.
Columbia, Ky.
Stone &- Stone.
Attoncy-At-Liw
W31 practice a
dm sad adiofflisji owties.'
Jimsttwn, : KettKky
In Pawn.
There is scarcely anything in
this wide world that a person up
against it financially can't pawn,
for the pawnbroker is a gambler,
whose instincts either are ac
quired or born in him, and he
will take a chance on anything
provided the article is not falling
to pieces.
Women, according to the pawn
broker, work their own ruin fre
quently by liquor and drug ad
diction, but in a ' great many
cases it is derelict husbands who
cause the women to patronize the
pawnshop. And the woman
makes the sacrifice to protect her
.children.
"A woman who is struggling
to save her children," the pawn
broker said, "will begin by pawn
ing household things. The alarm
clock or another kind of clock
will go first. Then she will sac
rifice a few dishes. May be
some of the furniture will go
next. Her clothes will remain
for the last, ' because she needs
clothes in her quest for work.
The best dress will be saved, if
at all possible, but I have known
hundreds of cases where they
have pawned corsets to keep the
family supplied with a bite of
food in times of want."
In things offered for pawn the
threeball man says that razors
lead by a wide margin, while
alarm clocks, strange as it may
seem, come second. Umbrellas,
too, are a common article to be
pawned. And only about 30 per
cent., of these articles eventually
are redeemed.
I keep on hands a full stock of
coffins, caskets, and robes. I also keep
Metallic Caskets, and Steel Boxes and
two hearses. Prompt service night or
day. Besidence Phone 29, office
phone 98.
45-1 yr J. F. Triptett,
Columbia, Ky.
It is commonly known that
points of the compass can be de
termined by the use of a watch.
By pointing the hour hand to
ward the sun, "a bearing half
way betweenfthe hour hand Band
twelve o'clock on the watch is
true south. It is not generally
known that time can be told by
the compass with equal facility.
Take the true azimuth or bear
ing of the sun and subtract from
it 180 degrees; multiply the re
mainder by the fraction 1-15,
and the result will be the hours
before or after twelve o'clock
noon.
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The amount due from one sub
scriber to this paper is a small
matter, but consider several hun
dred of these and it is a big mat
ter to us. For this reason we
urge each and every one to send
in their renewal at once. Look
at the label on this paper. It
will tell you when your subscrip
tion expires. Then appoint your
self a committee of one to mail
us your renewal today. If every
subscriber will do; this it will
save us much time and expense
and will enable us to devote
same to the improvement of
your paper.
His Five Dimes.
The State Belgian Relief 'com
mission was collecting funds in
Washington when there came 'a
contribution from a young lad,
an ex-bonvict, who sent five
dimes. This note accompanied
the money:
"My contribution is not much,
as contributions go, but it repre
sents the difference between new
soles'on my shoes, and wearing
the old soles a littlev longer. My
five dimes represent five cans of
milk for five little Belgian tots.
I'll take chances on catching
cold."
Prison is likely to mae a con
vict bitter and hard. It had
given this reformed prisoner a
wide sympathy for all who suffer.
The hardest part of a convict's
life often comes, too, after his
discharge from srison. This
man is fighting back to an hon
est life through difficult days of
poverty. The whole world has
been against him, as t it is
againsi every ex-convict. Yet
out of his shame and poverty, he
has the spirit of a royal giver.
He has the heart to realize the
need of children thousands of
miles away, and is willing to go
with his feet on the ground in
order to be able to aid those
children.
If any one in the community
might have been excused from
giving, this ex-convict was the
man. He needed help, surely,
as much as any Belgian refugee.
But it is the test of a generous
heart that it does not desire .to
be excused;
It Pays to Organize.
A planter down in Kentucky
had just employed a strange ne
gro as a mule driver. He hand
ed him a brand new blacksnake
whip, climbed up on a seat be
hind a pair of mules and asked
the darkey if he could use the
whip. Without a word the mule
driver drew the black lash be
tween his fingers, swung it over
his head and flicked a butterfly
from a clover blossom alongside
the road over which they were
traveling.
''That isn't bad" remarKed
the planter. "Can you hit that
honey bee over there?"
Again the negro swung the
whip and the honeybee fell dead.
Noting a pair of bumble bees on
still another blossom, the negro
swished them out of existence
with the cracker of his new black
snake, and drew further admira
tion from his new employer.
A little, further along the
planter spied a hornet's nest in a
bush beside the highway. Two
or three hornets were assembled
at the entrance to the nest.
"Can you hit them, Sam?" he
inquired.
"Ye3, sah; I kin," replied the
negro; "but I ain't a goin'. to;
dey's organized." Exchange.
Secretary McAdoo, in a speech,
declared that the United States
was enjoying an era of-, unexam
pled prosperity, and that the din
ner pail was overflowing.
Worth a Million at .26.
Edward Gait, native Georgian,
now of Ardmore, Okla., started
with a penny when he was six
years of age, and now at 26 he
is worth $1,000,000 and wealth
is accumulating for him by the
thousands of dollars, To begin
at the beginning Gait wa3 born
in Spring Place, Ga., in 1890.
Late in the 80's Gait went to
Oklahoma after attending col
legs in Georgia and entered the
real estate and insurance busi
ness in Ardmore. There he be
came a close friend of Roy M!
Johnsan who was trying to
squeeze bread and meat out of a
small newspaper.
One day a gentleman and a
scholar, a man who had seen the
ups and downs of life, appeared
in the newspaper office and ask
ed Johnson for some coin. -The
old man left on a vagabond trip
that covered several weeks. He
would return from lime to time
and beg more cash and each
time he told Johnson that some
day he would make him rich.
One day the old fellow entered
and remarked that he had found
the richest oil and gas field in
Oklahoma.
Johnson called his friend Gait.
Together they raised money to
buy a small piece of real estate.
Their first well was a gusher.
Then they had no trouble get
ting cash and everything to
which the young men turned
their hands prospered. They
took partners and now they own
a railroad.and control the largest
independent oil companies in
Oklahoma.
Animals can Swim.
The author of a book on ani
mals once said "Sheep cannot
swim." The statement was ac
cepted because no contradictory
evidence could be found, and
there seemed to be a prevailing
belief in its accuracy. But now
Mr. H. C. Hammond, Newton,
Kansas, writes: "Please take
this back. Some years ago a
large flock of sheep owned by a
Mr. Berryman did swim the
north fork of White river in Ar
kansas. The sheep were being
taken from Arkansas to Howell
county, Missouri. The river at
that point was over a hundred
yards wide, and, the current
swift."
This seems to settle an inter
esting point in natural history.
That is, it shows that sheep can
swim, though it does not make
quite clear whether they do so
voluntarilf, or just how much
persuasion was necessary to in
duce them to enter the water.
Even cats and fowls float, so
that, when forced into the water
in any way, they make some
kind 'of desperate struggle to
reach the land.
A new 30O barrel oil well is re
ported in Estill county where
there is a great oil boom, prob
ably the greatest in the history
of Kentucky.
HENRY W. DEPP,
DENTIST
Am permanently located in Co
lumbia.
AH Classes of Dental work done. Crow
de and Inlay work a Specialty.
AH Work Guaranteed
Office over G. W. Lowe's
Shoe Store
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The Adair County News,
Columbia, Ky.
Surveying
Land Owners Attention.
T. C. Faulkner, is prepared to do
your Surveying correctly?
He has thirty-three years
experience. Charges rea
sonable. Phone 74 or
write
T. f . Faulkner,
lolumbfa. Ky.
A penny saved is a penny
earned. But the penny isn't in
evitably saved while it is in the
owner's pocket or his stocking.
To put it beyond the reach of
emotional desire to spend and
protect it from accident and
from the designs of thieves who
break in and steal, the thing to
do is to deposit it in bank.
Do You Know That
Rural sanitation is a health
protection to the city-dweller?
It's foolish to educate a boy
and then let him die nof typhoid
fever?
The U. S. Public Health Ser
vice issues a free bulletin on the
summer care of infants.
Clean water, clean food, clean
houses make clean,' healthy
American citizens?
The State of California has re
duced its typhoid death rate 70
per cent in the past ten years?
Bats are the most expensive
animals which man maintains?
It is estimated that the averge
manure pile will breed 900,000
flies per ton?

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